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| Photo by Brent Keane |
The first sign.
On Sunday the earthquakes started along Kilauea
4.0 on the surface, but 20 miles down the road in Hilo,
only a community alert on my husbandʻs phone
gave us any indication that Pele was waking up from nap.
The second sign.
On Monday morning, during a 4 am Zoom class,
Lava, Pele, was fountaining out of an old rift zone
Her glow calling locals and tourists alike out of bed like a siren
luring sailors onto her rocks.
By 10 am she was done,
leaving only a shower of sulfuric smoke to mark her path
across the new black pahoehoe.
Third sign. On Monday evening, Kanehekili,
brother to Pele and Hiʻiakaikapoliopele,
born from the mouth of Haumea
rolls into Waiakea and Hilo bringing his thunder, lightning, rain.
The sky lights up the Panaewa forest outside my home
rain stomping on our totan roof and waking my moʻo
who calls out for me as I try to compose this poem.
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Anarchy - non recognition of authority or other controlling system
Education anarchy pushes back against the authoritarian
corporate structures
standardized curriculum
definition of success and thriving, challenges, barriers, obstacles, deficiencies, "readiness"
as defined by the OTHERs
Anarchist as the lava that is Pele, devourer, creator, contemporary, heat bringer, kupuna
Anarchy as Pele manifested into heat and vog, sulfur and rock, rivers of fire, stone thrower, bomb maker.
Pono - moral, upright, righteous, excellent, sustaining, survivance
fairly small words that explode with the possibility for hulihia and hoʻoulu
Pono as Hiʻiaka, Hiʻiakaikapoliopele, younger sister, brought as an egg in the bosom of Pele
The life bringer, gardener, surfer, dancer, peace maker
Pono anarchism as a hula sustained by love and rage
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